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Former President Joe Biden had been evaluated aft doctors recovered a "small nodule" connected his prostate, a spokesperson confirmed to CBS News connected Tuesday.
"In a regular carnal exam a tiny nodule was recovered successful the prostate which necessitated further evaluation," a Biden spokesperson said.
The quality was archetypal reported by The New York Times.
Further investigating would beryllium needed to find if a nodule points to prostate crab oregon is benign, meaning noncancerous.
"Prostate crab whitethorn contiguous arsenic a prostate nodule (hard feeling country connected the prostate) oregon elevated PSA trial and often results successful ordering an MRI and prostate biopsy," Dr. Herbert Lepor, urologist astatine NYU Langone told CBS News successful an emailed statement.
Prostate crab is common, 2nd lone to tegument crab arsenic the astir communal crab affecting males, according to the Cleveland Clinic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for each 100 males, 13 volition make prostate crab astatine immoderate constituent successful their lives.
Though each men are astatine hazard for prostate cancer, property is the astir communal hazard factor, the CDC says.
"The older a antheral is, the greater the accidental of getting prostate cancer," the CDC notes.
Mr. Biden is 82, and near bureau successful January arsenic the oldest president successful history, though President Trump, who is 78, successful January became the oldest idiosyncratic to instrumentality the oath of office.
The quality comes arsenic a caller publication is acceptable to beryllium released astir Mr. Biden's wellness during his clip astatine the White House. While Biden has mostly kept a debased illustration since leaving the White House successful January, but helium and Jill Biden appeared connected "The View" past week, wherever the brace insisted that rumors of a cognitive diminution are false.
"They are wrong," Biden said. "There's thing to prolong that."
Fin Daniel Gómez is CBS News' governmental manager and enforcement director, Politics and White House. In this role, Gómez oversees the regular White House and governmental sum for CBS News and works intimately with Washington bureau enactment to pass the Network's governmental coverage.
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